Steve Rabson

Steve Rabson(born May 7, 1943) is an AmericanJapanologist,historian,translator,academicand professor emeritus of East Asian Studies atBrown University.

Career

Rabson's research has focused on modernJapanese literature,especially works depicting war, its aftermath, and the experiences of women and minorities.He is regarded as an expert onOkinawa,subject of several of his books, and has spoken ofwartime rape thereto theNew York Times.He is also aJapan Focusassociate. As a U.S. Army draftee he was stationed in Okinawa in 1967-68.

Selected works

In an overview of writings by and about Rabson,OCLC/WorldCatlists roughly 11 works in 17 publications in 2 languages and 360+ library holdings.

• The poetry ofKaneko Mitsuharu,1979
• Okinawa: two postwar novellas by Tatsuhiro Oshiro,(Institute of East Asian Studies,University of California, Berkeley,1989, reprinted 1996)
• Shimazaki Tōsonon war,1991
• Yosano Akiko on War: To Give One's Life or Not: A Question of Which War,April 1991
• Righteous Cause or Tragic Folly: Changing Views of War in Modern Japanese Poetry,(Center for Japanese Studies,University of Michigan,1998)
• Southern exposure: modern Japanese literature from Okinawa,co-edited with Michael Molasky (University of Hawaii Press,2000)
• Edo senryū on waka and women,2003
• The Okinawan Diaspora in Japan: Crossing the Borders Within(University of Hawaii Press, 2012)
• KpopCrash Course: Beyond Gangnam Style,Dr Steve Rabson withAlexandra Swords
• Islands of Resistance: Japanese Literature from Okinawa,co-edited with Davinder Bhowmik (forthcoming from University of Hawaii Press, 2015)